POSTS TAGGED AS synthetic biology

Cyborg Cells

Engineering Cyborg Bacteria Through intracellular hydrogelation
“Here, for the first time, the authors {at the University of California-Davis] create hybrid material-cell [MORE]

Bioelectronic Control of Gene Expression

Synthetic biology and bioelectrochemical tools for electrogenetic system engineering
“In this work, we [biochemists at Imperial College London and the University [MORE]

Engineered Microbe for Treating Parkinson’s

Researchers harness probiotics to deliver Parkinson’s disease treatment
“Researchers [at the University of Georgia] have engineered probiotic bacteria that can synthesize [MORE]

The Synbio Gold Rush to Mother’s Milk

Hacking mother’s milk
“Imagine we created a dream food—a superfood—something which, if consumed more widely could reduce cancer risk, boost our [MORE]

Synthetic Biology “Circuits” to Detect Disease States

 
Synthetic biology
MIT engineers have created synthetic biology “circuits” that could pave the way for implantable sensors that detect heart pathologies [MORE]

An Engineered Bacterium for Diagnosing a Human Disease

Engineered organism could diagnose Crohn’s disease flareups
“In an important step toward the clinical application of synthetic biology, Rice University researchers [MORE]

20 Year Forecast for Synthetic Biology

Synthetic biology
The Engineering Biology Research Consortium is “futurist-minded” about synthetic biology, with funding from the National Science Foundation and the [MORE]

Synthetic Biology Primes Solid Tumors for Immunotherapy

Engineered bacterium armed with cancer fighting antibody
Engineering bacteria to deliver anticancer drugs amounts to giving an untreatable cancer a treatable [MORE]

A Genome in a Day

DNA
In living cells, a special polymerase named “terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase” (TdT) adds about a thousand nucleotides per second to a [MORE]

Metabolic Engineering

Huimin Zhao Developed Efficient Metabolic Engineering Process
CRISPR gene editing usually targets one DNA sequence at a time, but now researchers [MORE]

A Synthetic Cardiac Stem Cell

Synthetic Cardiac Stem Cells
University collaborators in North Carolina and Henan, China have created a synthetic cardiac stem cell that has [MORE]

Synthetic Biotic

Microbiome
Sometime in 2017, a Cambridge, MA company, Synlogic, plans to carry out the first clinical trial using synthetic biology—which in [MORE]

From Reading to Writing a Genome

Gen9 Lab
“HGP Write” is the name of an idea more than a project in progress. Recently, a number of synthetic [MORE]

Gut-Biome Sensor

Jeffrey Tabor
Synthetic biologists at Rice University are working to create bacterial sensors that can detect different kinds of inflammation associated [MORE]